I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

dalovindj:I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

Did you know that they are called "Arabic Numbers"?

Those damn muslins have done too much to our culture. Let us cast off these "numbers" and return to what they were doing in year XXIV

dalovindj:I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

dalovindj:I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

Then they'll be confused with Freedom fries. And that'll be confusing when we're trying to count to potato!

Now, if it had happened in 76, that would have gotten my spirit up. Because I was a student in 76 and we didn't have any teachers walking around yanking our johnsons and wanting a boiler room bang bang, dag nabbit. No. We were too busy winding down from the Vietnam War and recovering from recessions and embargoes. Oh, we didn't have time for such chicanery in 1976. It was a bicentennial year. You just did have stuff like that happen during a bicentennial year.

PunGent:dalovindj: I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

Hoblit:"A middle school teacher, accused of having a sexual relationship with a prior student, was arrested and taken into police custody " - TFA

"That teacher has yet to be charged " - TFA

"Charges are expected to be filed on Wednesday. " - TFA

I don't understand, they couldn't wait to arrest the teacher until say...they were going to file charges?

The police have the authority to arrest anyone when there is probable cause to believe that person has committed a crime. From there, and within a short period of time, the local prosecutor will file a formal charge after reviewing the arrest report. Sometimes, before anyone is ever arrested for a crime, prosecutors will work up the formal charge and obtain an arrest warrant based on that. Yet other times, a grand jury will issue an indictment from which an arrest warrant will come.

dalovindj:I think what this really illustrates is one of the biggest problems we, as a society, face. Sixes look too much like nines. I move that from here on out we should change 'nines' to 'freedoms' and make them more flag shaped. It will just be easier for everybody and we wouldn't have to deal with articles and threads like these.

Meh. Personally, if a 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind...

wildcardjack:But in 1966 it was still cool. Or whatever the language was at the time.

In 1966 it usually ended with a shotgun marriage once a baby came along. Newspapers rarely considered it a scandal unless some reporter was on a Comstock-style crusade against someone, or immorality in general.

As many problems as 24-hour news cycles cause, they do bring to light scandals and abusers that were always swept under the rug in kinder, gentler times.